“If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives” (Deuteronomy 22:28–29).They are following this Old Testament historical scripture from the Hebrew tribal days as if it were a part of the Gospels of the New Testament!!!! (OK, she's not forced to marry him... but she does HAVE to have his baby even if she isn't pregnant yet, i.e. they think thier sperm is sacred! (Or the are they trying to create a conflict to hide something?)

Arizona lawmakers have drawn up strict new abortion laws... that decree pregnancy begins two weeks before conception.Final
legislative approval was given to a bill that would ban most abortions
after 20 weeks of pregnancy, handing Republicans their latest win in
ongoing national efforts to impose greater restrictions on abortion.But the bill defines a foetus' gestational age 'as calculated from the first day of the last [mother's] menstrual period'.

This would mean, given that a woman does not produce eggs until a fortnight after her period, a baby can be terminated two weeks before it was conceived.The
bill says Arizona would '[p]rohibit abortions at or after twenty weeks
of gestation, except in cases of a medical emergency, based on the
documented risks to women’s health and the strong medical evidence that
unborn children feel pain during an abortion at that gestational age.'The bill now goes to the state's Republican governor for approval.

If
the bill is enacted, the state would join six others that have put
similar late-term abortion bans in place in the past two years based on
hotly debated medical research suggesting that a fetus feels pain
starting at 20 weeks of gestation. Georgia
lawmakers approved a similar bill in March that now awaits the
signature of Republican Governor Nathan Deal. 'The
chief purpose of government is to protect life and liberty, and this
bill does just that,' said Cathi Herrod, the president of the
conservative Center for Arizona Policy, adding that the bill aimed to
'protect the life of a woman considering an abortion as well as the life
of her pre-born child.' Matthew
Benson, a spokesman for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, said she had a
'strong and consistent pro-life record,' but she has not yet publicly
announced her position on the bill.While
barring most late-term abortions, the Arizona law would allow them in
situations where continuing a pregnancy risks death or would 'create
serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major
bodily function.'This would be determined by a physician's 'good faith clinical judgment.'Bryan
Howard, the president of Planned Parenthood Arizona, said the bill and
several others sent to the governor continued an 'unprecedented attack'
on women and their healthcare in recent years.Howard
said the ban 'completely prevents couples from making their own
decisions about how to deal with the heartbreaking situation when a
pregnancy is determined to involve serious health complications.'

He
said the law could also drive badly needed medical professionals from
the state. Only a small number of abortions are performed in Arizona
after 20 weeks. The
U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions nationwide in 1973 but allowed
states to ban the procedure after the time when the fetus could survive
outside the womb, unless the pregnancy risked the woman's health.In
addition to banning most late-term abortions, the bill would also
require women to have an ultrasound at least 24 hours prior to an
abortion, instead of the one hour that is currently mandated under state
law. Additionally,
state officials would be required to create a website that details such
items as the risks of the procedure and shows pictures of the fetus in
various stages.Representative
Katie Hobbs, a Phoenix Democrat, called the measure another example of
how conservative Tea Party lawmakers are 'too extreme and too focused on
their rigid ideology.' 'This
bill ignores the health risks that some women face during pregnancy and
pushes an extremist agenda,' said Hobbs, moments after the vote. 'There are serious medical implications associated with this legislation. I urge the governor to veto this bill.'

Quotes

"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." - Rumi

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

"Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history." - Carl Jung

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - George Washington

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi